I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song -- the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.
Source: Southern Song.
-- Margaret Walker, (Jul 7 1915-1998), US writer, educator; She was one of the most important poets, 1930s; For My People captured the struggles of Southern blacks and won the Yale Younger Poets Award, 1942.